Sarah Roberts

Lecturer, Pathway Lead for Health Visiting

RGN, SCPHN, PGCertEd, MA Education for Health Professionals

+44 (0)1483 686695

sarah.roberts@surrey.ac.uk

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Academic and research departments

School of Health Sciences.

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Biography

Following a long career in the NHS as an Adult Nurse and a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, I joined the university in 2014 as a Teaching Fellow with the public health team. I undertook the role of Lead for Admissions in the School of Health Sciences from 2015 - 2023 and the Pathway Lead for Health Visiting in 2022.

University roles and responsibilities

Lecturer
Lead for DBS
Coordination of support for SCPHN/ SP Practice Assessors and Practice Supervisors
Pathway Lead for Health Visiting

My qualifications

Registered General Nurse (Adult)

St Georges Hospital, Tooting

2003

Diploma of Higher Education in Nursing Studies

University of London

2005

BSc (Hons) Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting)

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2013

Practice Teacher

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2016

Postgraduate certificate in education for professional practice

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2021

Master of Arts Education for Health Professionals

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Previous roles

2005 - 2014

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse and Practice Teacher

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Affiliations and memberships

United Kingdom Standing Council on Specialist Community Public Health Nurse education

Member

Institute of Health Visiting

Member

Research

Research projects

Building knowledge, confidence and learning communities with Lego: two case studies with undergraduate nursing students at the ��

This project explores the potential of LEGO® and adapted LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® activities for improving student engagement, dialogue and critical reflection, and encouraging rich participation in classroom-based learning activities.

Teaching

I am module lead for the postgraduate modules:

Developing autonomous practice in SCPHN (Health Visiting)

Safeguarding in healthcare (children and families)

Advanced assessment and communication skills in public health nursing

Additional Field of Practice in SCPHN (Health Visiting)

I am a personal tutor to SCPHN (HV) students.

Publications

Stead, R., Dimitrova, R., Pourgoura, A., Roberts, S., and West, S. (2020) Building knowledge and learning communities using LEGO◦ in nursing. In K. Gravett, N. Yakovchuk and I. M. Kinchin (Eds.), Enhancing student-centred teaching in higher education: The landscape of student-staff research partnerships Palmgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature.

An exploration of the use of Lego with undergraduate nursing students as a teaching method to develop a deeper understanding and knowledge base.

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